"And while much has been written about the lack of funding to underrepresented founders, the painfully obvious solution has always been to increase the density of Black & Latinx investors with check-writing authority."
Thoughts:No one will care or understand the magnitude of what you're building at first. Keep talking about it, keep pitching it to everyone, and be humble about what's not working or when you're wrong. Double down on what is working and you'll start to notice when potential customer's eyes light up.
Tampa Bay Inno • Inno released its Inno on Fire honorees, which included Embarc Collective members Edgility, SiteZeus, Chattr, TrustLayer, JetBridge, the team behind the Florida Blockchain and Bitcoin Summit, ProCredEx, Pocket, BlockSpaces, and Panther!
Tampa Bay Business Journal • Embarc Collective and Build In SE released our annual Southeast Capital Landscape, which outlines the sources of startup capital across the region. The report notes that the Southeast has steadily grown by 30% in new firm creation over the past three years. Read more in WRAL Techwire.
Tampa Bay Inno • From national cohorts to prestigious pitch competitions, local startups are making their mark including Embarc Collective members COI Energy and SynsorMed, who were recently chosen among the 50 companies for Google for Startups' annual Black Founder Fund.
Elevator Pitch: Maya AI was founded to power to help startups and founders build their businesses in the right direction.
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Position Highlights:This team member will be working on developing and experimenting with new security policies to improve end-user data handling. Challenges: Storing large amounts of business-specific data, needing to be used in real-time for ML and AI computations, as well as comply with multi-national regulatory agencies.
In honor of Latinx Heritage Month, we're exploring resources available to help scale Latinx-led ventures. This is the fastest-growing segment of startup founders and can add another $1.4T to the US economy (source: Aspen Institute).
🏦 The Next Evolution of Capital - Village Capital has put together a database of funding sources focused on underrepresented founders, including Latinx entrepreneurs.
🤝 Latinx Startup Alliance LinkedIn Group - join nearly 1,000 members of the Latinx startup community. The mission of this group is to encourage the inspiration and cultivation of Latinx-led startup tech ventures by providing a support network of fellow Latinx founders, mentors, advisors, innovators, partners, and investors.
2021 Startup of the Year® Community
This is an opportunity for early-stage startups and founding teams from across all verticals to join the 2021 Startup of the Year worldwide community. If you've raised less than $5M in funding and have a functional prototype, consider applying.
Rise with Republic aims to educate early-stage founders on fundraising across the board from creating an investor pipeline, the art of pitching, the economics of VC, and more.
Want to quickly build, test, and iterate the assumptions of your idea-stage business? Need to develop sound strategies across your business model, talent and product roadmap, brand, and fundraising strategy? Validate your startup with the Foundations Program—a nine-week intimate workshop-style course from the startup operators of Embarc Collective.
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